Arizona Buttercup

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

Arizona Buttercup

Aug 08 2026 | 00:04:04

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Show Notes

In 1881 botanists John and Sara Lemmon were collecting and botanizing in an area called Rucker Valley in the Chiricahua Mountains. And, they were staying at a military camp called Camp Rucker. I mention this because the old Camp Rucker site is very close to where Ms. Mesquitey and I were hanging out. I was so excited …well, I still am… to identify the same buttercup that John and Sara collected over 140 years ago. And, maybe in the same woodland we were in the day of our buttercup discovery. Lemme see…There were wild buttercups in fields and yards when I…

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